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I'm not going to lie, what you're proposing is going to be incredibly difficult.

Do you happen to know what the serial number is/was, by any chance? The reason I ask is because without it, you will never 100% know if it is the one he brought back.

That being said, there likely would have been war trophy documentation and/or amnesty paperwork somewhere. Just something to narrow down inquiries with.

My unsolicited advice - look for a little while. But perhaps you should just buy an stg44 and share that with him. The memory will more than make up for the fact that its not *his* original one. If you never knew the serial number though, well, there's no saying it *isn't* his either.

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If you are willing to pay crazy money to get it back, trace the ownership chain and find the current owner, and offer to replace it with a really nice one and some cash to boot if he will part with it.

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Do you have the ATF (or Treasury amnesty ) registration paperwork with serial number? Was the receiver marked STG44? I have had several STG44s, but do not know if they were ever in Nebraska or Florida.